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Besides these there was the Brooklyn, swiftest of American cruisers, together with half a dozen more cruisers, gunboats, yachts, and torpedo-boats all in war-paint, all ready for instant action, and all flying the banner of stars and stripes. At the wonderful sight Ridge's heart glowed with patriotism and a new courage. How impregnable looked the huge battle-ships! how terrible!
She felt "dead" the day before with fatigue and anxiety, and shed tears over one of Grandma Ridge's little speeches. But it was a triumph!
She began to say something into his ear, laughing and crying at the same time, so that all he was at length able to gather was that she didn't regret the close call at all, for it had shown her had shown her Julius had not seen Ridge Jordan make his move to spring from the car, but he had felt it felt Ridge's hand strike his shoulder, his knee hit his back.
You may walk, ride or drive to it; in any case the surprise begins the moment you reach the ridge's top above Manitou, and ceases not till the back is turned at the close of the excursion nor then either, for the memory of that marvel haunts one like a feverish dream.
There was a glint of armor among the drenched foliage, but the rain-buffeted eyes of the riders saw it not. On they came, their patient horses plodding slowly through the sticky road and hurtling storm. Now they were half way up the ridge's side.
"But your friend, Major, who is he?" asked the other, scanning Ridge's brown canvas uniform doubtfully. "None of your business, sir. Let it be sufficient that he is my friend, and do as I bid you without further words." At this Discipline, even though suspicious, yielded to the voice of Authority, and the guerilla made surly announcement that both fire and food were close at hand.
Of course it could not be; but to Ridge's senses, confused by the shock of his fall, it seemed as though the voice was that of the false friend who had betrayed him. Without a knowledge of direction or purpose, Ridge suffered himself to be guided by his unknown friend through several narrow streets.
Ridge's croaking was not without justification. The crash in Milly's affairs came, not until the autumn, a few weeks before the day set for the wedding, and it came on the line of cleavage already described, although quite unexpectedly and over a trivial matter, as such things usually happen. After the closing of the fairy city gloom had settled down over Chicago.
"Yes," admitted Rollo, hesitatingly, as he stepped nimbly aside to avoid a snap of white teeth. "I suppose she is, but she seems awfully vicious, and I can't say that she is exactly the style of horse that I most admire. Tell you what I'll do, Norris. I'll give her to you, seeing that you and she seem to hit it off so well. You've won her by rights, anyhow." Ridge's face flushed.
Norris, who had recognized among the names of the young men presented to her those of some of the best-known families of the country, was surrounded by a group of Ridge's friends, who, as they all wore the same uniform that he did, she imagined must also be officers.
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